People living in the earliest known settlement in the Americas relied partly on seaweed, bolstering the theory that the New World was settled via a coastal route, a new study says.
Jaw and facial structures in the ancient human relatives show that they could open unusually wide, although researchers are stumped as to why they had this ability.
A 500-year-old shipwreck has been found off the coast of Namibia laden with tons of copper ingots, elephant tusks, gold coins, and cannons to fend off pirates.
Mexicans discovered sunflower farming for themselves around 300 B.C., a new study says. Others argue that the technique trickled down from the eastern U.S.
The Iraqi national museum has re-acquired more than 700 looted antiquities that Syria had seized from traffickers since the 2003 U.S. military invasion.
Tiny bits of plant material found in the teeth of a Neandertal skeleton unearthed in Iraq provide the first direct evidence that the early human relatives ate vegetation, experts say.
A rare visit by archaeologists inside the tomb of Empress Jingu offers experts hope that other closely guarded sites dating to the founding of Japan might soon be open to independent study.